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Nathalie!!! I'm so, so happy that she finally won the individual Gold Medal...today she has really painted a masterpiece... on the men's side, impressive piece of mental strenght by Oh, who didn't lose his focus after an awful start in the final match and eventually completed a remarkable comeback... today he proved himself definitely the strongest in the field...well deserved gold medal for him... on the Italian side, we can only regret Moellhausen's decision to switch her Nationality...'cause our girls once again have been really disappointing, losing assaults that they should win with closed eyes... Curatoli's Bronze medal is only a small consolation...he could/should have done a bit better also against Oh...he was 9-7 ahead and then he just lost his mind too easily (and it happened many times also in the world cup events...after the break at the 8th hit, he often gives up a break to his opponents...that's a dangerous tendency that should be investigated by himself and his coaching staff)...

do you mean at the Olympic Games? because we all know that it's not an Olympic sport, but they're actually part of the West Indies team in Cricket (even though not in this year's world cup) and they also have a decent football team (for the Central American/Caribbean standard, of course)...

men's Sabre quarterfinals Andras Szatmari b. Eli Dershwitz 15-11 Mojtaba Abedini b. Max Hartung 15-11 Luca Curatoli b. Shaul Gordon 15-12 Oh Sanguk b. Konstantin Lokhanov 15-9 men's Sabre Semifinals Andras Szatmari vs Mojtaba Abedini Luca Curatoli vs Oh Sanguk the entire medal session is scheduled to start at 6.40 p.m. CET (women's Epee first to go)...

and Abedini eliminates Hartung!!! medal for Iran!

medal for Italy!!! and also the home side, despite losing their star so early, found the way to jump on the podium, thanks to a surprising Andras Szatmari, who upset the no.1 seeded Dershwitz...

Korea were twice just 1 hit short of a medal...tonight they will go to sleep with a lot of regrets...

women's Epee quarterfinals Olena Kryvytska b. Kang Young Mi 15-14 Lin Sheng b. Lee Hye In 11-10 Vivian Kong Man Wai b. Coraline Vitalis 15-9 Nathalie Moellhausen b. Lis Rottler-Fautsch 11-10 women's Epee Semifinals Olena Kryvytska vs Lin Sheng Vivian Kong Man Wai vs Nathalie Moellhausen

Nathalie!!! very lucky escape from her, to be honest...

yeah, I must have confused her with someone else from some other small Nation... however, she has a 7th place in a world cup event in 2017 and at the European champs 2017 in Tbilisi as her best results before today...

she does train in Paris (where she actually lives right now)... actually I wrote before that she won an individual world Bronze medal and a few team medal (including 1 Gold) with Italy... she switched her Nationality because she wanted to be sure to take part in the Rio Games (as she is half Brazilian) and with the Italian team she didn't have any guarantee (with Fiamingo and Navarria in the squad, her only chance was with the team...but we were not going to qualify the full team...so she decided to go elsewhere)...

men's Sabre quarterfinals Eli Dershwitz vs Andras Szatmari Mojtaba Abedini vs Max Hartung Shaul Gordon vs Luca Curatoli Konstantin Lokhanov vs Oh Sanguk

women's Epee quarterfinals Olena Kryvytska vs Kang Young Mi Lee Hye In vs Lin Sheng Vivian Kong Man Wai vs Coraline Vitalis Nathalie Moellhausen vs Lis Rottler-Fautsch

when I wrote that post, Samele was still there (then he lost to Oh)... and as I wrote before, Moellhausen now represents Brazil, but she's more Italian than Brazilian (she was born and raised here, even if her mom is Brazilian)...

and finally Curatoli is the last man to reach the top 8...Bazadze is definitely not happy with the ref...

Szatmari and Hartung also in the quarterfinals...only the match between Curatoli and Bazadze is still running (with the Georgian not playing fair, even if I have to say that a couple of hits against him have been judged not correctly)...

and Samele is out...destroyed by Oh Sanguk...

and Dershwitz is the 4th fencer to make the top 8 in the men's sabre... now it's time for the 2 "true" Italians left in the competition today...

Brazil is actually Italy...Moellhausen already won an individual Bronze medal and a few Team medals (including 1 Gold) with the Italian team, before switching to her mom's native Country, Brazil... meanwhile this girl from Luxembourg is really improving, after a very good career among the juniors (I think she won a few international medals between cadets and juniors classes or in any case she got really close...I have to check it out properly)...

Gordon and Lokhanov (who easily defeated Gu Bon Gil ) are also through to the quarterfinals...

Abedini did it! he won 15-9 against Ibragimov and he's in the top 8...

well, actually Curatoli has the chance of his life...now he has to face Sandro Bazadze, then the winner of Gordon vs Yoshida... if he misses out on a medal today, he should be kicked off from Budapest to Naples... in the meantime, the Korean armada already lost 2 of their men...Ha Han Sol and Kim Junho are out...

and it's over...easy win for our no.1... so we have 2 guys left in the competition...but now it's when things get difficult...

however, Berrè wasted a big chance against a not unstoppable Dolniceanu (and he definitely can't blame anybody other than himself), meanwhile Samele survived a tough battle against Danilenko... right now, Curatoli has a big margin over Rahbari...

yeah, but who knows why? at least 85% of those weird decisions were going always in the same direction... p.s. Hungarian can hate Montano...it's their right (until they don't do anything stupid)...but it was ref's job that wasn't good enough to be a world champs assault...

I wouldn't say so... being Italian, obviously I'm focusing more on our athletes (especially in the preliminary stages of any event, when you can choose what to watch) and I write about them... for sure I've seen as many "wrong" results not involving the Italians, but I don't have any interest in coming here to write about it, unless it happens in the finals phase... for sure I'm not wasting my time writing that the Chinese divers or the Russian gymnasts and figure skaters are always overpayed, as it doesn't change anything in Italian perspective (and I just can't keep track of all the disasters I normally see in sports like Boxing -and not only Boxing)... still, it's there for anybody to see what usually happens...